COP on the Hill – Stories from the week of May 31 and June 7, 2024

2 meetings: Grover Norquist & Bi-annual Energy Transition Conference

6015 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 08  this week

476 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   … 03 this week.. Ambassador from Slovenia; embassy employees from France and Germany.  I spoke en français a good 5 minutes about the Swiss approach to heroin treatment and thinking of drug abuse as a medical versus criminal problem.

COP stats since inception: August 2009

400 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 00 this week

117 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 this week

245 interviews and reports in minor media … 0 this week –

102 Radio Interviews:  01 this week

34 major conferences attended – CPAC 2024, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria),  LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week

Media:  Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters, Stern

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